hubert blanz
frigolite
elemente
c-print on aluminium,
triptych, each 250 x 85 cm or 150 x 42,5 cm, Hubert Blanz, 2004
`The Magic of the Moment´
In his work entitled `Frigolite
Elemente´ Blanz embarks on a motif evolved with modern
city-planning, which comes off the dualistic disposition of
having a highly condensed built skyline against the background
of an untouched natural landscape as an utopian and human
balance beween the city and nature.
Starting point for the construction
of corresponding scenarios is gathering of various packing
material from extruded polystyrene (`frigolite´
Elemente), which is photographically documented from different
perspectives in order to be arranged within the simulation
space of a fictional observer. Obtaining a neutral standpoint,
similar to the one of Le Corbusiers (1) illustrations, the
observer appears slightly elevated from the ground, gazing
towards the skyline of a city, which – for instance
– arises from the specific appearance of an ondulating
watersurface or the drained and grey soil of a clay pit (site
reference is indicated by geographical altitude and latitude).
Despite the meticulous composition
of the interplay of varying volumes and their specific degree
of plastic peculiarity, there is the paradox that the boundary
between ground and figure appears picturesqely blurred and
hence obscures the principles of creation within the image
space.
„In the moment when I think
that I am capable of clarifying a magical experience, the
problem remains; because I am not clarifying the magical
experience but any circumstance, which might lead to this magic
experience.“ (2)
(1) Eine Stadt der Gegenwart from
`Le Corbusier, Der Städtebau´, S. 201-207, Deutsche
Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1979.
(2) Citation Heinz von Foerster from
`Teil der Welt´, S. 33, Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag,
Heidelberg, 2002.
Wolfgang Fiel, Vienna 2004.